When will it happen?

[Diya]

It has been a long time since I've been wondering, when will the Revolution happen? I mean a global revolution that will change everything. We are in a perfect era for such a revolution in my opinion, with the globalization and so on. But I'm just too pessimistic now, or should I say realistic, to think that anything like a leftist revolution will happen in any time soon in the future. After all what happened in history, only a few noticed that the radical left has the answers that might help humanity, but what can a minority among billions do? Even the ones that we want to help don't give a shit about their own problems, they're too busy with insignificant nonsense and even some of them see communists as devils. And since Marx, the Left have been divided into countless branches and we can't agree on anything. Will we continue to read and solve our societies' problems in our heads until humankind's extinction or will we wake up and revive the sleeping Left?

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I hope soon cuss I am willing to fight.

It is about turning that Minority into a Majority. About class conciseness and willingness to fight. I like to hope that because of the explosion in information technology and the depth of the problems
that the growth of class conciseness will be exponential until the revolution.

The mainstream Liberalist state will try to stop this by Limiting the power of the left. laws to attack revolutionary's like the Anti-Anarchist actions being taken in Europe. They will limit our ability to gather
information by shutting down sites and by flooding those that remain with their Liberal Agenda of apathy, anger and division. They will continue to do what they have been so practiced in doing since the 1900s.

If you want it to happen in your life time you have to be vocal and active. Counter their misinformation with strong arguments based in reality backed up by evidence.
Learn to be convincing and not argumentative. Find Active organizations such as Anti-fa and Anarchist groups.
And arm yourself so that when they come for you; you will be ready.
As Marx put it.

"The working class must be armed and organized."

[The Garbage Disposal Unit]

It has been a long time since I've been wondering, when will the Revolution happen? I mean a global revolution that will change everything. We are in a perfect era for such a revolution in my opinion, with the globalization and so on. But I'm just too pessimistic now, or should I say realistic, to think that anything like a leftist revolution will happen in any time soon in the future.

I think one of the great failures of the left and revolutionary politics, particularly the Leninist variety, has been a failure to break with an essentially bourgeois notion of revolution. The idea that there will be a great event in which political power is seized in order to reshape society, which typified a stage in the transition to capitalism in many instances (including Russia, in my estimation) is not an idea we ought to be married to. Rather, those places in which we see the most vibrant experiments in creating radically democratic and egalitarian forms of life - in Chiapas, in Syrian Kurdistan - the revolutionary process has looked quite different. Even in Venezuala, where a "socialist" party did achieve political power, the most striking transformations have occurred at the level of the Bolivarian councils and neighbourhood organizations. Point being, rather than looking for "the revolution", perhaps we ought to look for those spaces, movements, and moments that point beyond capitalism in terms of a proliferation of organizational forms and social practices which are antagonistic to capital.


After all what happened in history, only a few noticed that the radical left has the answers that might help humanity, but what can a minority among billions do? Even the ones that we want to help don't give a shit about their own problems, they're too busy with insignificant nonsense and even some of them see communists as devils.

I think this is needlessly pessimistic, and even somewhat condescending. If anything, the problem with the radical left is precisely this faith in having "the answers that might help humanity", rather than a real desire to go among the masses and seriously engage with their struggles. And make no mistake, I am willing to say with certainty that struggles do exist; albeit in fractured and distorted forms. The task for us is not to offer "the answers", but to ask the questions that will help us see what is already happening. It's only from that point that we can begin working to weave struggles together is coherent and coordinated forms.


And since Marx, the Left have been divided into countless branches and we can't agree on anything. Will we continue to read and solve our societies' problems in our heads until humankind's extinction or will we wake up and revive the sleeping Left?

Reasonable concern. I certainly hope not, and I do see lots of sincere attempts.

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Addition: The left was fractured before and during Marx's time. Marx was never and is not the definitive source of all ideas left.